Our Delivering Deal Value (DDV) team, assists both Corporate and Private Equity (PE) clients in a wide range of business critical operational and transformational challenges, driven by Merger and Acquisition (M&A) activity. We advise our clients on deals with values ranging from £50 million to over £5 billion.

We currently have a vacancy for a Manager in the TMT team.

The individual will ideally have held an operational line management role, with proven experience of growing revenue or increasing efficiency within a software business. They will also have experience in working across the senior leadership team and be comfortable working with the CTO as much as the CEO and COO. Whilst primarily London based, our deal involvement is global in nature and candidates must be prepared to travel widely and frequently as and when required.

About the role

DDV focuses on providing support for potential/actual transactions and assists clients in all operational aspects of the transaction, pre and post completion, including:

Buy and sell side operational due diligence

Synergy development and review

Carve out and divestment support

Taking control and 100 day planning

Mergers & Acquisitions Integration

Post-acquisition performance improvement

As part of the transaction process, the DDV team develops a rapid understanding of the target/client business in order to quickly assimilate the key operational issues, synergies, risks and upsides around a transaction. We report our findings real time to the client, but typically we will produce clear written reports articulating our findings for any purchaser or vendor. We may also help with post deal implementation advising on synergies, cost reduction opportunities & programme management

As well as consulting expertise, our team members have considerable industry experience in running businesses and implementing change. Due to continued success and increased demand for our services, DDV is seeking to enhance this team, specifically within the software industry and linkages between revenue growth (including sales & marketing) and R&D.

Essential skills & experience

Product management

A broad and comprehensive technical understanding, together with a good understanding of product development processes, concepts (especially in an agile environment) roadmaps and timelines;

Developing a technology product strategy and vision;

Managed one or more development budgets and developed / evaluated R&D return on investments;

Planned new features and changes to a product (including research on use cases, market positioning and competitor analysis) and experience in business case creation, detailed functional specifications and wire-frames;

Prototyped and demonstrated new product ideas / features to stakeholders and built consensus for approval;

A track record of developing, launching, and marketing products, including implementing or supporting sales and marketing campaigns;

General requirements

Comfort around numerical analysis and understanding of the key principles of financial information;

An ability to quickly assimilate large amounts of information and to be able to draw out hypotheses and key messages;

Strong interpersonal and leadership skills;

Comfort and ability around report writing (which is a key requirement for this role); and

An ability to operate on your own initiative and to work through ambiguity, often to tight timescales.

Desirable skills & experience:

M&A exposure;

Leading a product management function / department or team;

Understanding of bespoke software development processes;

Understanding of developing and supporting business critical online platforms;

Exposure of working across different cultures;

Foreign language skills

Consulting

In Consulting we deliver practical, far-sighted advice that gets straight to the heart of clients’ business issues and delivers amazing results by helping our clients improve the way they operate, reduce costs, manage risks, leverage talent or fundamentally change the way they do business, the work you do will be all about helping organisations of all shapes and sizes work smarter and grow faster. You could find yourself working with household names in a diverse range of industries – everyone from big-name broadcasters and high-street banks to multinational telecoms operators and energy companies.

The skills we look for in future employees

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, ‘The PwC Professional’ and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

Diversity

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.

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